[Allegiance]

Originally Posted by SCasey

My wife got tired of shoveling snow!

That was funny!

[thelegges]

still have our home up north. use it for summers and holidays. Plus other half still works full time and maintains it alone for the rest of the year. Its about being active here, golf, friends, not so much of the food. taxes are more for us and do miss the change of seasons, fall is just beautiful. In a few years will make the move to sell up north and stay put in TV

[TomOB]

Moved from Hawaii because of expense. Moving out of TV because of overcrowding.

[JP]

Not the swinging lifestyle of the villages

[MSGirl]

We moved for the lifestyle!

[Gpsma]

No "lifestyle" where you lived before?

[mellincf]

I'm trying to decide to move at all. I live just outside Atlanta. We have great weather with four moderate seasons (today, late June, 82 at noon, 62 at midnight). We don't have hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, etc. But what we do have is traffic and it's a million miles to get anywhere. What do you guys do about general shopping: Target, Walmart, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Publix, used book stores, dentists, and fun things outside of organized activities?

[Allegiance]

Originally Posted by mellincf

I'm trying to decide to move at all. I live just outside Atlanta. We have great weather with four moderate seasons (today, late June, 82 at noon, 62 at midnight). We don't have hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, etc. But what we do have is traffic and it's a million miles to get anywhere. What do you guys do about general shopping: Target, Walmart, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Publix, used book stores, dentists, and fun things outside of organized activities?

Imo, if you buy in the north east of the villages, near Spanish Springs you can be at "Target, Walmart, Publix, lowes, winn Dixie, aldi, dentists, etc, etc, and fun things outside of organized activities in a few minutes by golf cart. Zero traffic to deal with most of the time.

[Lbmb24101]

Originally Posted by mellincf

I'm trying to decide to move at all. I live just outside Atlanta. We have great weather with four moderate seasons (today, late June, 82 at noon, 62 at midnight). We don't have hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzards, etc. But what we do have is traffic and it's a million miles to get anywhere. What do you guys do about general shopping: Target, Walmart, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Publix, used book stores, dentists, and fun things outside of organized activities?

We lived in Johns Creek, yes the traffic in Atlanta has gotten out of hand.
We moved here in 2013 and THE reason was infrastructre; being able to get around in golf cart EVERYWHERE ( not like Peachtree City south of Atl)
The multi modal paths was the reason for our move.
I can not drive an automobile.
Shopping?
There is Amazon and walmart.com I do not miss the malls.
Good luck with yoyr decision making!

[SALYBOW]

when Gracie moved so did I.. LOL
Free golf
Many activities
Too expensive to live on the Coasts

[CFrance]

When I was in high school and walking to school in weather so cold the snot froze the insides of my nostrils together, I promised myself that one day--ONE DAY--I would never do winter again. It took a while.

[DeeNJerry]

We moved from MN to get away from Old Man Winter! We go up every summer for a couple of weeks to see the kids and grandkids. Video calling makes it easy to see and talk to them the rest of the year. We started out in Lehigh Acres, near Fort Myers, but there isnt anything to do there, unless you like the beach. I have relatives here and loved it more every time we came up to visit them. I'm learning how to golf, and I get plenty of exercise with Walk Away the Pounds and Cardio drumming!! My husband is in a couple of music groups the he loves! Lots to do!.

[banjobob]

Summers too short winter temperatures up and down too often , nice days in Ohio but sooo many more nice days in Florida unlimited things to do year around

[GypsyBuddy]

We had no intention of leaving Virginia Beach; had built a new home 2 years before the visit here to just spend a week in FL and visit an old friend. I never dreamed of leaving VA but was so impressed with this place that we decided to come again for 2 winter months to see if we really liked it enough to move here. And we did. Bought a lot, went home to sell our nearly new home, and here we are. Where we lived in VA Beach had plenty of activities but not much in the daytime. Lot of summer entertainment but it usually started at 9 PM. In our neighborhood we were the only retired couple. Here there is activity all day long and entertainment ends at 9 PM...this is why we are here. Plenty of people around to do things with and enough activity to suit us every single day.

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

Just a question for those that have made a permanent move to TV, why didn't you retire in your former location?

I'm more curious as to why you didn't stay as opposed to what attracted you to TV. Perhaps cost of living, weather, etc.

Personally I moved because of the weather. The winters finally beat me down. If it wasn't for the brutal weather up north there is nothing here, either in Florida or TV, that would have made me move south.

Actually we bought a new courtyard villa thinking we were going to rent it out & be snow birds. So when we went back to Ohio for some reason I told my wife, lets try & sell our house & by something smaller since we're only going to be in Ohio for 6 months. We told one neighbor he he bought it right away, so not having a home to go to, I asked my wife do you want to just move to Florida, so that's what we did. When we got here we found out this courtyard wasn't going to be big enough so we bought a Lilac designer home in the village of Charolette. Now were debating what to do next .